(or here’s a list of what launched yesterday that might deserve a closer look)

Project: Arena Colossei

Designers: Aldo Ghetti, Giada Ghetti, Fabio Ghetti

Artists: Alan D’Amico (Kingsport Festival, Wendake, Whitehall Mystery), Maichol Quinto (Kingsport Festival, Mage Wars Arena, Ventura)

Publisher: OrcoNero Games

Genre/Mechanisms: action queue, dice rolling, fighting, miniatures, team-based game

Player Count: 1-6, with expansions

Solo Mode: yes, with expansions

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: A combat & miniatures gladiator game, set in Ancient Rome.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $80, core set only

All-In (w/shipping): $278

Campaign Ends: 12/3

Game Ships: Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 10%, with 19 days to go.

Project: Battle Bears: The Board Game

Designers: Brendan McCaskell (Last One Standing: The Battle Royale Board Game), Jonathan Thwaites (Vikings: Raid & Conquer)

Artists: Nicolas Hein, Dan Hughes (Dicenstein), Dan Wang

Publisher: OOMM Games (Last One Standing: The Battle Royale Board Game)

Genre/Mechanisms: fighting, miniatures, grid movement, hand management, miniatures, modular board, point to point movement, variable player powers, wargame

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: high

Summary: A re-theming of McCaskells’s previous Last One Standing: The Battle Royale Board Game, this time with cute bears on an alien planet instead of with humans on a reality television event in 2025.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $41

All-In (w/shipping): $104, includes extras

Campaign Ends: 12/13

Game Ships: Nov. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 22%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Bellum Sacrum Card Game

Designer: Anthony Gibbins

Artist: Laura Jenkinson-Brown

Publisher: Bow String Games

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, card game, fighting, hand management, push your luck, set collection, variable phase order

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A “two-player competitive card game star[ring] the gods of ancient Rome.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $30

All-In (w/shipping): $214, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 12/11

Game Ships: Mar. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 35%, with 26 days to go.

Project: Clash of Rage, 2nd Printing

Designer: Frederic Guerard (Clash of Rage, Ilos, Titanium Wars)

Artists: Igor Polouchine (King of New York, King of Tokyo, Spot It!, Welcome to the Dungeon), Jean-Baptiste Reynaud (King of Tokyo, Schotten Totten, Ticket to Ride: First Journey)

Publisher: La Boite de Jeu (Montana, Neta-Tanka, Outlive)

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, miniatures, modular board, pattern building, take that, wargame

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “A miniatures game of conquest and movement,” where “every army is unique, with its own units and characteristics;” Clash of Rage gets a second printing and a new Clan expansion for its “second season.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $31, just the newest Clan

All-In (w/shipping): $196

Campaign Ends: 11/21

Game Ships: July 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 131%, with 7 days to go.

Project: Glory: A Game of Knights

Designers: Dominik “Lir” Mucha, Marcin “Wis” Wisthal

Artists: Tymoteusz Chliszcz (Waste Knights Second Edition), Jarek Nocon (878 Vikings: Invasions of England, 1775: Rebellion, 1812: The Invasion of Canada, Coup, Fief: France 1429, Freedom: The Underground Railroad, K2, Morels, The Resistance)

Publisher: Strategos Games

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, fighting, modular board, set collection, worker placement

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: high

Summary: Choose from solo mode, pvp, or pve, and “assume the role of a knight fighting for glory in the tournaments of 15th century Europe.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $75

All-In (w/shipping): $85

Campaign Ends: 12/9

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 98%, with 24 days to go.